Those involved in Starke County’s mint industry got together earlier this month to exchange ideas. Ron Gifford with the Starke County Economic Development Foundation discussed the event with the Hamlet Town Council last week.
“We started at Callisons and looked at their operation, just to see what they do and how they do and things like that,” he said. “And then a couple representatives from Callisons went with us down to Kemin, down in North Judson, where they also handle mint but they do something totally different. They don’t have the same processes, but there’s probably some things they might be able to work together on. And then we went out to the Wappel mint farm, that still was operational and learned about it out there.”
Gifford said representatives from NIPSCO and “agbioscience” company AgriNovus were also in attendance. He said the goal is to come up with more ways that mint can benefit everyone in the county.
